Hours before it was to take effect, President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban was put on hold Wednesday by a federal judge in Hawaii who questioned whether the administration was motivated by national security concerns.

Trump called the ruling an example of “unprecedented judicial overreach” and said his administration would appeal it to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“We’re going to win. We’re going to keep our citizens safe,” the president said at a rally in Nashville. “The danger is clear. The law is clear. The need for my executive order is clear.”

U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson said Hawaii would suffer financially if the executive order blocked the flow of students and tourists to the state, and he concluded that Hawaii was likely to succeed on a claim that the ban violates First Amendment protections against religious discrimination.

“The illogic of the government’s contentions is palpable,” Watson wrote. “The notion that one can demonstrate animus toward any group of people only by targeting all of them at once is fundamentally flawed.”

The judge issued his 43-page ruling less than two hours after hearing Hawaii’s request for a temporary restraining order to stop the ban from being put into practice.

The ruling came as opponents renewed their legal challenges across the country, asking judges in three states to block the executive order that targets people from six predominantly Muslim countries. Federal courts in Maryland, Washington state and Hawaii heard arguments about whether it should be allowed to take effect early Thursday as scheduled.

In all, more than half a dozen states are trying to stop the ban.

Watson made it clear that his decision applied nationwide, ruling that the ban could not be enforced at any U.S. borders or ports of entry or in the issuance of visas.

The new version of the ban details more of a national security rationale. It is narrower and eases some concerns about violating the due-process rights of travelers. It applies only to new visas from Somalia, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Libya and Yemen and temporarily shuts down the U.S. refugee program. It does not apply to travelers who already have visas.

Health care rescue

Their health care overhaul in peril from all sides, Trump and top House Republicans acknowledged Wednesday they would make changes to the legislation in hopes of nailing down votes and pushing the party’s showpiece legislation through the chamber soon.

Trump touted the embattled House Republican health care plan at his Nashville rally, telling his supporters that “the House legislation does so much for you.”

But he made clear that he’s open to debate and negotiation.

Trump told supporters at the campaign-style event that “we’re going to all get together, we’re going to get something done.”

The plan has been criticized by some conservatives as “Obamacare lite” and by others because of projections that millions would lose coverage.

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., declined to commit to bringing the measure to the House floor next week, a fresh indication of uncertainty. Republican leaders have repeatedly said that was their schedule, but opposition mushroomed after a congressional report concluded this week that the measure would strip 24 million people of coverage in a decade.

Ryan told reporters that GOP leaders could now make “some necessary improvements and refinements” to the legislation, reflecting an urgency to buttress support. The measure would strike down much of former President Barack Obama’s 2010 overhaul and reduce the federal role, including financing, for health care consumers and is opposed uniformly by Democrats.

Conservatives want to end Obama’s expansion of Medicaid to 11 million additional low-income people next year, not 2020 as the Republican bill proposes. They say a GOP proposed tax credit to help people pay medical costs is too generous, and they want to terminate all of Obama’s insurance requirements, including mandatory coverage of specified services such as drug counseling.

At an all-hands meeting Wednesday evening of House GOP lawmakers, Vice President Mike Pence and party leaders urged their rank-and-file to rally behind the legislation.

Though Pence met repeatedly Wednesday with House Republicans, his impact remained unclear and GOP rebels still abounded. Conservatives were unhappy the measure doesn’t erase enough of Obama’s law while at the other end of the party’s spectrum, GOP moderates were upset that the Republican bill would strip millions of health coverage.

Fracking rule easing

Trump started rolling back another Obama administration rule Wednesday, one requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, better known as fracking.

The administration said in court papers Wednesday that it is withdrawing from a lawsuit challenging the Obama-era rule and will begin a new rule-making process later this year.

The Interior Department issued the rule in March 2015, the first major federal regulation of fracking, the controversial drilling technique that has sparked an ongoing boom in natural gas production but raised widespread concerns about possible groundwater contamination and even earthquakes.

The rule has been on hold since last year after a judge in Wyoming ruled that federal regulators lack congressional authority to set rules for fracking.

A spokeswoman for Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke confirmed the administration’s intent to submit a new rule but did not add further comment late Wednesday. Zinke took office March 1 and has promised to review a slew of department rules and policies.

‘No idea’ on tax leak

During a Wednesday TV interview, Trump said he has “no idea” how his 2005 tax documents were made public but says the move was “illegal” and a “disgrace.”

Trump , appearing on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight,” said that the tax records should not have been leaked but he says “it’s certainly not an embarrassing tax return at all.”

Reporter David Cay Johnston revealed the tax documents in an interview with MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow. The two pages showed that the president earned $150 million in 2005 and paid $38 million in income taxes that year.

Trump also reaffirmed his claim that the Obama administration wiretapped him last year. “Wiretap covers a lot of different things,” he said.

Republican and Democratic leaders of the House Intelligence Committee said again Wednesday they have seen no evidence supporting Trump’s allegation. And Attorney General Jeff Sessions said Wednesday he had offered no evidence to support the claim.

Political soulmates?

During his trip to Nashville, Trump paid homage to a predecessor, Andrew Jackson, with the highest form of flattery. Trump said the nation’s seventh president reminds him an awful lot of himself.

The president paid a visit Wednesday to The Hermitage — Jackson’s home — to commemorate what would have been his 250th birthday.

Trump hailed Jackson as “one of our great presidents” and described some of their similarities. Trump’s team has long seized on parallels between the current president and the Tennessee war hero, comparing Jackson’s triumph in 1828 over President John Quincy Adams to Trump’s victory over Hillary Clinton last year.

Trump described Jackson as a fellow outsider who pledged to represent the forgotten worker and took on the Washington establishment.

“It was during the revolution that Jackson first confronted and defied an arrogant elite,” Trump said.

“Does that sound familiar to you?” he asked his crowd. “Oh, I know the feeling, Andrew.”